"Ice plates and snow mounds, cold light, tossing and turning, bitter and hot, the heart is next to Qianli." This is a poem written by Qianlong in the eighth year (1743). Even if you use cold ice cubes and ice cream, you can't cover up the boredom and heat in your heart, just because you remember the people of Li who are tormented by the heat. How hot was that year? Let's see what the Qianlong Emperor said in the Holy Will?
In ancient times, the power of science and technology and culture was far less developed than it is now, but natural disasters such as droughts, floods, typhoons in Taiwan never cared whether human beings had the ability to resist it, at that time, as long as there were natural disasters, it would lead to the local people not to live, and the emperors and ministers in the court were helpless, and at this time, the emperors would issue a holy decree, called the edict of sin, to express their determination to do good things for the people of the country, to review their own actions, so as to achieve the purpose of winning the hearts and minds of the people and stabilizing their status.
The earliest edict of sin appeared in 163 BC, when Emperor Liu Heng of Han issued such a sin edict that "questioned" his own ability because the whole country was in constant famine at that time. Because the occurrence of disasters makes people feel that this is a punishment from Heaven, so who is punishing? It is certain that he will not be such a low-level figure as himself, so he must be a contemporary son who bears the imperial order.
As a result, it caused great panic among the people, and began to think that these frequent disasters were caused by the negligence of Emperor Wen of Han. Under such circumstances, Liu Heng, the Emperor of the Han Dynasty, quickly decided on a solution - to admit his mistake to the people of the whole country. An edict was issued, which probably meant that the heavens chose me to be the monarch in order to bring a better life to the people of the dawn, and I had to set up ministers in order to better raise and govern the people, and now because of my faults with the ministers, the heavens showed that the disaster alerted me, and I was really ashamed of such a situation. I would like to ask you to come together and provide suggestions to improve the status quo.
In the eighth year of Qianlong, that is, in 1743, in the case of high temperature disasters, the tragic situation of the people was presented in the same number, and the people's hearts and minds began to be turbulent and unstable, so the Qianlong Emperor also issued a letter of self-crime, which read: "All because of the loss of decay, or the impropriety of employing people." "Tell the world that I know how much the impact of the high temperature disaster has caused, and the tragic situation makes me sleepless, which is probably because God thinks that some of my previous decisions were wrong and used to warn me."
In addition to a confession of his own behavior, the Qianlong Emperor ordered that the imperial court officials begin to distribute a large number of medicines for summer vacation in the people, and at the same time to transport the ice cubes used in the palace to the people for use. According to records, the eight years of Qianlong can be said to be the hottest summer in ancient Chinese history, the highest temperature reached 44.4 ° C, not to mention the ability to fry eggs, the lead and tin such items under the sun, can be sunburned to melt.
Think about it now that we have air conditioning, 35 ° C will already feel unbearable, every summer there are many people because the weather is too hot heat stroke into the hospital, and that year's high temperature, those Li people even do not have electric fans, can only rely on their own body function adjustment, according to the relevant historical records, when many people died because of such high temperatures, slightly fatter body size has not been able to escape this disaster, just ten days, there are 11400 people died in this heat.
For the Qianlong Emperor, this perverted-level high temperature disaster was nothing more than a holy decree, or he could continue to stay in the ice room to escape the heat, but for the people of dawn, it was an epic disaster that took away their lives. I have to sigh, this "sin of self-commandment" is just some beautiful words said by the emperor.